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Archive for the Thailand category
By
Nikki on
December 5th, 2007
THAILAND, KOH SAMUI EXCLUSIVE YOGA AND CLEANSE ESCAPE DURATION: 7 days and 6 nights UPCOMING DATES: 10th May - 17th May 2008
EXCLUSIVE YOGA AND CLEANSE ESCAPE
Join Nikki Massaioli for a week of Dynamic Iyengar Yoga and Pranayama, spa treatments, healthy gourmet cuisine, rest and relaxation in luxurious beachfront surroundings. The ultimate all inclusive retreat. For 7 days and 6 nights, learn to stop, let go, refresh & rediscover. Set on the pristine coastline of Southern Koh Samui, Thailand, this exclusive property is surrounded by lush vegetation, cascading streams and overlooks the powder-white beaches Koh Samui is renowned for. You will be guided through a healing process by a team of highly qualified health professionals, who are on site, helping you to achieve complete balance and wellness.
This exclusive property has been designed to embrace its surrounding landscape. The rooms and villas are nestled amid ancient, granite boulders, streams and tropical vegetation using nature’s own creations as defining elements of the surrounding architecture. Asian textiles and individually selected art pieces are combined with modern interiors to create a comfortable yet elegant space. The grounds of the property are tranquil and expansive giving each guest the opportunity to find one of the many private places to escape and surrender. WELLNESS SANCTUARY & HOLISTIC SPA The wellness sanctuary promotes a harmonious integration of body, mind and spirit, integrating holistic medicine and complementary therapies from the Eastern and Western traditions. The extensive selection of treatments on offer including; an Ayurvedic clinic, Chinese Doctors, naturopaths, day spa and massage allow for a truly personalised program to be created for each individual. This exclusive Koh Samui retreat is suitable for all yoga levels. Inclusions • 6 nights luxury accommodation Cost: $2499.00 AUS Twin Share in Hillside room, excluding flights. $2999.00 AUS Single in Hillside room, excluding flights $2899.00 AUS Twin Share in Suite with sea view, excluding flights. $3399.00 AUS Twin Share in Suite with sea view, excluding flights.
[BOOK-NOW] OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES • Additional wellness treatments [BOOK-NOW]
POST RETREAT ACTIVITIES Should you wish to continue your Thailand experience, we are more than happy to help you with your planning. Please contact us at Yoga to Go for more information. NIKKI MASSAIOLI Nikki Massaioli is the founder and director of Yoga To Go, Centre of Health and Wellbeing, a multi-modality holistic yoga centre in Sydney that is dedicated to the pursuit of health, balance and transformation. Her vision is simple but powerful: to share the transformative powers of yoga that she has experienced first hand. Nikki began practicing yoga at nineteen. Now, nearly fifteen years later, her vitality and wellness she attributes largely to her daily yoga practice. “Yoga is the most profound tool for growth, healing and self-transformation,” she says. “The practice creates space, freedom, courage and tenacity within.” Prior to starting Yoga to Go in 2002, Nikki studied with senior teachers in Australia, completed the Yoga Arts Teacher Training, and she has since gained certification as an Iyengar Yoga teacher. As well as teaching at her flourishing centre in Petersham, Nikki leads local Australian and International retreats, workshops and intensives. Her teaching style is equal parts dynamic and nurturing, passionate and caring. “The best thing about teaching is sharing the gifts of yoga,” she says. Nikki is a devoted mother of two and when not teaching or practicing yoga she loves to let loose on the living room dancefloor with her two young children.
[TOP] Yoga-to-Go’s Responsible Travel and Tourism Policy Yoga-to-Go’s Australian and international retreats offer individuals the opportunity to enhance their health and well being in luxurious and natural surroundings. This involves traveling to different destinations, each with their own unique environmental, cultural and economic conditions. Our Responsible Travel and Tourism Policy is a clear demonstration of our commitment to the sustainability of each of the places we visit, and respect for those who live there. As part of every retreat we will: • Minimise our global warming impact by making all our retreats carbon neutral. At Yoga-to-Go we value the people and places we visit though our retreats, just as we value the individuals who participate. Below are a set of guidelines we apply to fulfill our policy guidelines. Your participation in a Yoga-to-Go retreat will be 100% carbon neutral. Included in the cost of each of our retreats is an accredited carbon offsetting program that we have been developed through the Australian company, Carbon Planet. This means that we will calculate the amount of carbon dioxide that will be generated from your travel, accommodation and activities and offset this by investing in Carbon Planet’s fully certified carbon credit schemes. These include the purchase of, and caring for trees, and the installation of energy saving light bulbs and showerheads. Each carbon credit purchased will see 1 tonne of carbon dioxide being stored for at least 100 years. Full details of how the carbon offsetting scheme works is available at www.carbonplanet.com In addition to reducing our global warming impact, Yoga-to-Go requires all participants in our retreats to help protect the many different environments you will be experiencing. These include: • No littering We also use 100% recycled paper in all our course materials. Most of our international retreats take place in Thailand where there are different rules and customs from Western countries. As Thailand has a variety of cultures and religions there are certain behavioural and dress expectations that apply to the places you are likely to visit. For example, women can wear swimwear at the beach or around resorts, but topless bathing is generally not accepted. When visiting temples or other religious places, stricter dress codes apply such as covering shoulders and legs. It is important that all our retreat participants familiarise themselves with what is required and we will help with information and advice. There are parts of Thailand, such as Patong Beach, where the rules and regulations are more relaxed. These areas tend to be busier and are more tailored to Western-style nightlife and shopping. Bartering for clothing and other items is an accepted practice in throughout the country. It is important to tip staff in restaurants, cafes and hotels as the wages in Thailand are very low. We will assist you in understanding when tipping is appropriate. In Australia, we have a Western culture where there are fewer restrictions on dress and some activities than in non-Western countries. However, it is important that our Australian retreat participants respect the local rules and regulations of each the places we visit. Economic Guidelines Our retreats only use accommodation, travel and tourist facilities that are locally managed and owned. We also ensure the staff working for these organisations are appropriately rewarded. In the past, we have provided a percentage of our earnings from our retreats to local causes. For example, in the aftermath of the devastating Tsunami we contributed 10 per cent of takings to helping with the rebuilding of housing and infrastructure. We will continue to identify worthy philanthropic activities as part of our future retreats
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By
Nikki on
November 15th, 2007
I have been settling back into Sydney now for a week, after a blissful two weeks in Thailand. Our October retreat ran at the Twin Palms in Phuket and it shaped up to be an amazing week of transformation on every level. The week was held in a space of practice, fun, laughter and friendship. It never ceases to amaze me that, when we remove ourselves from the business of our lives we enable our selves to unravel. Rather than students running in from the busyness of their lives, taking a yoga class, filling up, and running straight into life again. The retreat offered an opportunity to be held in a space of freedom. Freedom to explore, what works in our life, what is not working in our lives. What it is like to practice yoga when we do not have our every day responsibilities and pressures. What is it like to practice yoga consistently, to let the gifts of a consistent practice emerge? To me it is a time just for the individual. A gift of space and exploration. During the week I had the privilege of watching that un ravelling process for people, I watched the stress and the tiredness disappear, the lightness emerge not only in their eyes yet also in their practice. The reality is that we were all taken care of, watered fed and loved, knowing this is not a space that many of us live in day in and day out, yet what it allowed was the opportunity to learn to do things differently, to try things that people would never normally do. And for that, the gifts at the end of the week are unfathomable. |
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